As of 1st July the firm of Gold Mann & Co has merged with the London office of the U.S. law firm Duane Morris. We have become partners in the firm and will bring the complement of Duane Morris’s London office to a dozen lawyers.

Duane Morris shares our attitude and approach to legal service provision. Key to that approach is a belief and understanding that making ourselves accessible, and our advice intelligible, is foremost amongst our clients’ requirements. We enjoy our work and approach every challenge with care, enthusiasm and good humour.

Our union with Duane Morris now enables us to offer you services that we have not been able to provide to date. The comprehensive range of legal services now available to you at Duane Morris includes:

• a complete range of company, commercial and business law services;
• full transactional services and capabilities (e.g. mergers, acquisitions, IPO’s and full due diligence support);
• comprehensive property services;
• full dispute resolution and litigation services;
• intellectual property protection, development and exploitation services (contentious and non-contentious);
• employment (contentious and non-contentious) and specialist employee incentive services.

In other words, we are now able to offer our clients everything they have been asking for; the same quality and attention but now with full legal service coverage.

We will continue to be your principal points of contact at Duane Morris and, as the approach to charging at Duane Morris is the same as it was at Gold Mann & Co, the fee regime will be unaffected by the merger.

In short, we believe that you will not see the join!

As soon as the opportunity arises, we look forward to introducing you to our new partners in London.

In addition to the UK legal services, we are also able to offer extensive reach and sophisticated support in the Americas.

Duane Morris LLP, among the 100 largest law firms in the United States, is a full-service law firm with in excess of 500 lawyers. In addition, Duane Morris’ affiliates have approximately 40 professionals engaged in complementary, non-legal service businesses. The firm represents clients across the United States and around the world, serviced through a combination of its 20 offices and relationships with two international networks of independent law firms.

Each Duane Morris office draws on the legal, administrative and technological services of the firm’s national network of offices and personnel through fully integrated systems and firm-wide practice groups. Supported by sophisticated information and telecommunications technologies, which link the firm’s offices, our lawyers are able to communicate, exchange and draw upon information and expertise rapidly and efficiently.

We are undertaking the physical move to the Duane Morris offices over the weekend 5/6 July and pending that move our contact details remain unchanged. From the morning of 7 July our direct contact details will be as follows:

Mark Hartley:

e-mail: mghartley@duanemorris.com

Ray Smyth:

direct dial: 020 7786 2137

Fax: 020 7786 2101

e-mail: rbsmyth@duanemorris.com.

We are excited about this development in our practice and are looking forward to continuing to work closely with you in the future and to identifying your needs and the scope for Duane Morris to meet the challenges of your requirements.